Jim, You can use session.create() to create a new FlowFile from within your script. You don't need a parent, or to transfer input->output, or even write any content to the output FlowFile for your use case. After flowFile = session.create(), you can do flowFile = session.putAttribute(flowFile, "absolute.path", "/path/to/my/file") and then transfer the flowFile(s) to success at the end.
Did I understand your use case correctly? If not please let me know and I'll try again :) Regards, Matt On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:51 PM, James McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon. I have a python script I will execute from an ExecuteScript > processor. This script applies complex filtering logic to select certain > files from a recursive directory structure. In my filtering loop, I will > have the fully qualified path and the filename. The fq path I intend to use > as absolute.path attribute in a flowFile, and the filename I intend to use > as filename attribute. My flowFiles will be passed from ExecuteScript to a > FetchFile processor. > > My question is this: how do I integrate the flowFile creation into my python > script, creating an empty flowFile and setting the attributes at that point > where I have the qualified file and metadata in my loop? I won't really have > an input stream - I'll work through my loop until certain conditions trigger > a break. As I find qualified files, I'll create a flowFile with no payload > but with attributes that FetchFile requires to bring the file into my > workflow. > > Thank you. -Jim
